Ode to Another Nightingale.

Carrie Jones
1 min readAug 15, 2021

“My heart aches,” he says as if that will change her mind.

He quotes Keats, memorizes it the way others memorize song lyrics,

Drunk, but not on hemlock or an opiate. Drunk

One minute and the next.

Keats is not pretentious enough a poet to impress

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Carrie Jones

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